Emanori

“No subordinarse a nada, ni a un hombre ni a un amor ni a una idea; tener siempre la independencia distante que consiste en no creer en la verdad ni, si la hubiese, en la utilidad de conocerla, ése es el estado en el que, según me parece, deber transcurrir en sí misma, la vida intelectual de los que no viven sin pensar.”
― Fernando Pessoa

“And tell me everything, tell chain by chain,
and link by link, and step by step;
sharpen the knives you kept hidden away,
thrust them into my breast, into my hands,
like a torrent of sunbursts,
an Amazon of buried jaguars,
and leave me cry: hours, days and years,
blind ages, stellar centuries.”
― Pablo Neruda, The Heights of Macchu Picchu

“There's a great difficulty in making
choices if you have any imagination at all. Faced with such a multitude of desireable choices, no one choice
seems satisfactory for very long by comparison with the aggregate desirability of all the rest, though compared to any *one* of the others it would not be found inferior. All equally attractive but none finally inviting.”
― John Barth, The End of the Road

“Why, O Gish, does thou run about?
The life that thou seekest, thou wilt not find.”
― The Epic of Gilgamesh